http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 – 2nd Test match - Batsmen to watch out for
The West Indian team will contest the visiting World champions, India, in the 2nd Test of tri-match Test-series scheduled at Bridgetown, Barbados. The match will begin from Tuesday, June 28, 2011, at the famous Kensington Oval cricket ground and
will wrap up on July 2, Saturday.
The confident Indian cricketers have defeated the Caribbean strugglers in the only T20 match and the 5-match ODI series. Some promising Indian performances were witnessed in the match.
Although many veteran cricketers had taken off after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2011 and Indian Premier League, still the Indian youngsters exhibited a responsible show and remained victorious.
India is playing with well-plotted tactics and their strategy is to effectively utilize whatever edge the pitches can provide.
Besides having some satisfactory batting performances, the Indian batting line up still underwent major changes. Five batsmen were included in the Test squad to further strengthen the batting array and crush the already crumbled West Indians.
The Indian batting order for the Test matches comprises of A Mukund, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229, top scorer of first Test match was not part of the ODI series, however, his addition in the Test squad reaped fruitful results, saving the match for India.
Top order Batsman, Dravid, took the responsibility of putting up a challenging total on the score-board after the early fall of wickets in the 2nd innings of the 1st Test. The classical Test batsman has a batting average of 52.65 in
the 151 Test matches he has played.
Having a highest Test score of 270 runs and a total of 152 in the 1st Test, Dravid is someone to be taken care of by the Windies’ bowlers.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539, the middle order batsman who also led the team as captain in ODIs, is the second best batsman of the Test series so far.
Raina has a batting average of 37.07 with a strike rate of 58.78 in his Test career of 9 matches. These figures along with his second rank as a highest scorer in the 1st test make him another peril for the Caribbean team.
Harbhajan, who is known for his off-spin bowling style, comes as a lower-order batsman but his batting performance in the 1st Test match against West Indies caught the hosts in surprise.
The spinner scored a total of 70 runs with a strike rate of 94.59 causing damage to the West Indian Team who is already falling http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 of good batting performances.
Commonly called “Bhajji”, the multi facade talent has http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-E-Best-c41115 score of 115 runs with a strike rate of 65.49 in his Test career, making him another unleashed attacking batsman for the hosts.
Test debutant http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abhinav-Mukund-c41758 has excellent statistics in domestic and first class cricket. Possessing a batting average of 58.03 in the first class cricket, the 21-year-old earned an opening spot in the first ever Test match of his career. He only managed
to score 36 runs but his potential must not be underestimated by the competing hosts.
Now if we take an insight into the Caribbean batting order, the players were consistently shuffled because of the team’s underperformance in the ODI series.
The WI test squad consists of AB Barath, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Rampaul-c2233, FH Edwards and D Bishoo.
The depleted West Indian team made a single change in their batting order after their defeat in the 1st Test match. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brendan-Paul-Nash-c48360, who was dropped for his consistently
poor performance in the last five innings.
West Indian opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-Barath-c886, is currently the third highest scorer of Test series with a score of 102 runs. He has a batting average of 33.55 and a top score of 104 in his Test career of 5 matches. If Dravid had not intervened with his match saving
century, Barath’s performance would have taken WI closer to victory.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Darren-Michael-Bravo-c52477 remained unlucky in the 1st innings of the first Test match, but played fine in the second innings, which makes him the 2nd West Indian batsman to score most runs at Sabina Park.
Chanderpaul and Rampaul follow these batsmen in the most runs scored line-up after the 1st Test.
Without experienced players like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Darren-Julius-Garvey-Sammy-c52468.
The captain urges the players to remain focused during the game and repeat their comeback performances as they had shown in the 4th and the 5th ODI of the series.
The pitch of Sabina park ground was slow but still few prominent individual scores were seen. As the 2nd Test will take place in Kensington Oval which is predicted to be favorable for the batsmen, an exhilarating game can be expected on Tuesday,
June 28, 2011.
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